Peninsula Clarion
Kasilof Cohoe Cemetery Association board meeting
4/17/19
40th KPBA Home Show biggest ever
Kasilof Cohoe Cemetery Association is holding a board meeting open to the public. The meeting will be held on April 20 at 3 p.m. at the McLane Center, 24117 Kalifornsky Beach Road in Kasilof. Anyone interested in volunteering to help us maintain Spruce Grove Memorial Park, or are just interested about changes in Spruce Grove are welcome to attend.
National Day of Prayer “Do you believe in the power of prayer? Do you have a love for your community and nation? Please join in a time of unified public prayer imploring God through the power and authority of Jesus Christ for the life and salvation of our region, state and nation on Thursday, May 2, 12-1 p.m. outside KPB Administration Building on Binkley Street.
2019 Women On Target Clinic summer schedule Go to our events and sign up on Eventbrite “get tickets” and review the instructions on Facebook-Kenai Peninsula Women on Target. You must be 18 years of age. May 16: Intro to Shotgun; June 8: Intro to pistol; June 29: Intro to pistol; August 2: Intro to Rifle.Sponsored by Friends of the NRA, Kenai Peninsula SCI and Snowshoe Gun Club.
Kenai Elks Lodge #2425 Easter Extravaganza
40th Home Show had more vendors than ever.
The Kenai Peninsula Builders Association (KPBA) celebrated its 40th anniversary with an incredible showing at this year’s Home Show. Executive Officer Kirsten Raye chose to bring in some changes to mark the hallmark anniversary and they were well-received by the vendors and public alike. The event featured over
130 booths from builders, realtors, bankers and home décor businesses — everything tied to the home building industry, and even medical care. With over 65 KPBA members participating in the show, folks were abuzz with the volume of builders available to them. Hundreds of folks stayed at the show throughout the day, winning door prizes,
the first booth as you enter the show. “We had a great booth this year with a lot of products that most folks haven’t seen before and we had a lot of giveaways and drop in outdoor ranges for that outside picnic area you’ve been thinking about for summer,” said Jeff Warton, SBS Kenai store manager. “We’re excited because break-up came a little early
this year, which gives folks more time to complete their projects and enjoy the summer,” said Warton. For 40 years, the managers of SBS have used the Home Show as an unscientific economic indicator of the coming building season — with the crystal ball passing from the late Paul Moses to Rick Abbott and now Jeff Warton See KPBA, page A2
D.A.R.E. lock-in rewards elementary school kids
Kenai Elks Lodge #2425 will host an Easter Extravaganza on Sunday, April 21, Free to the Public. We provide the turkeys and hams, but please bring a side dish to share! There will be an egg hunt for three age categories, a jelly bean guessing contest, and a deviled egg contest. If you’d like to enter the deviled egg contest, please bring 12 eggs. Elk Members eat from 12:30-1:30 p.m. All Public eats from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Estimated Times:Age 0-5 Egg Hunt from 2-2:30 p.m. Age 6-9 Egg Hunt from 2:30-3 p.m. Age 10-13 Egg Hunt from 3-3:30 p.m. See EVENTS, page A2
viewing the large video display that highlighted KPBA members and a historical photo slide show, and frequenting the various food booths. Since the beginning of the show, Superior — now Spenard Building Supply (SBS) — has been one of the primary sponsors. Since the show moved to the Soldotna Sports Complex, the company has had
SPD Officer Berestoff presents medals for the top 5 D.A.R.E. essays.
For over 20 years, the Soldotna Police Department (SPD) has run Drug Abuse Resistance Education, commonly known among local youth and parents as D.A.R.E “There’s been several D.A.R.E. officers before me but the program has been running since I joined the department and that’s been 19 years now,” SPD Officer Berestoff said at the annual D.A.R.E. lock-in and awards celebration at SoHi. “This is our graduation ceremony and lock-in that we’ve been doing for 13 years. It’s a way for all of the kids from all the participating schools to get together and celebrate the fact that they’ve completed the 10-week program and enjoy their accomplishment, while having fun in a safe environment that we provide for them,” ex-
plained Berestoff in an interview with the Dispatch. “The program gives them the skills and teaches them the ability to be able to make safe and responsible decisions as they get older. We break down the D.A.R.E. decision-making model and that helps them define what the problem is, assess the situation, respond to the situation and then evaluate their decision on whether or not it was a good decision that they made. It mainly helps them deal with problem situations as they are presented to them throughout life. In a nutshell, teaching them how to make good choices,” said Berestoff.
The top five finalists in the essay competition were called on stage, recognized and given a D.A.R.E. mascot Darin’ the Lion. “The overall winner gets to keep the Darin’ that I bring back and forth to the schools with me. At every class I give the doll to a member of the class and they are given the opportunity to make an appropriate decoration for it. I keep all those decorations on the Darin’ throughout the entire program so the big prize is that the overall essay winner gets to keep the keep the Darin’ that was my personal doll,” he said. See D.A.R.E., page A2
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